Railway-track appliance.



J. W. THOMAS.

RAILWAY TRACK APPLIANCE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 11. 1913.

1,149,307. Patented Aug. 10, 1915.

INVENTOR.

ATTORNEY.

WITNESSES:

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' Application filed. December 12 1313 T all whom it may concern 1 Be. it knownwthat 1; JOHN citizen: of the .Umted -States, -;resid1ng at Kansas City, "in the county of Wyan'dotte and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway Track Appliances, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in railway track appliances, and my, object is to provide a simple device of this character especially adapted to preventing main and guard rails from tippingwhen SLlbJBCtQ-CltO heavy lateral pressure such as is exerted thereon by a train rounding a curve.

' In order that the invention maybe fully 1inderstood reference will now be made to the accompanyingdrawing in which! Figure 1 is a perspective view of my appliance. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the, appliance with main and guard rails in-pos1- tion thereon. appliance with main and guard rails inposition thereon. Fig. 4: is a modified form of the appliance witlrguard and main rails in position thereon.

In said drawing, A designates a cross-tie, B a main rail, andiCla guard rail, all of,

usual type, exceptlthat; part of the guard rail lease adjacent tothe main rail is removed as clearlylshown on Fig. 3,to bring the balls of therails-in proper relation to each other. I

ies a tie-plate member 2, adapted to besecustomary manner by' driving 1 spikes C i through holes 3,4; and 5. The underside of member 2' is provided with teeth 6, which, become embedded in the tie and. thus prevent the appliance from I moving longitudinally of said tie. Y Y

Member 2 is provided at'its ends with extensions 7 and 8, having abutments 9'and 10 inclined upwardly and toward each other and provided with angular seatsll and 12, *to receive the adjacent corners of the balls of the rails B and C, respectivelyiMemberQ is provided at its upper sideadjacent the bases of the abutments with flanges 13-l4t having beveled upper surfaces;

15l6, respectively,said flanges being provided to engage theadjacent margins of the rail bases to prevent the same from moving .laterally in the direction'of said flanges;

-ber ztermediate th e flanges 13 1 l"to' engage and overlap the ad acent margins of the rail W. THOMAS; a

Fig. 3 is an end view of the '1 designates my appliancewhich embod erialNc. 807,272:

on thc tieplate member 2, at a point in;

bases, as shown clearly on Fig. 8.

The abutments 9 and '10 are arranged at suchan angle and so curved at their inner lower portions as to permit the outer margins of the rail bases to be tilted upward to allow the inner margins of said bases to be inserted beneath the retaining member 17, and the seats 11 and 12 are so disposedwlth,

relation to said retaining member 17, the upper surface of the tie-plate member and the'flanges l3 and 14:, as to receive the balls of the rails B and C; respectively, when said rails are rocked into the respective positions disclosed by Fig.

In practice, the appliance is firmly secured to a tie by driving spikes through, the holes 3. The adjacent margins of the rail bases are then inserted beneath the oppo- ,sia T-shaped retaining ,i'neni restatemew i 1 7 sitely-disp0sed overlapping portions of the retaining member 17 with the opposite sides of theirbases resting upon the beveled surfaces 155 -16, of the anges 13l4t, respectively. Pressure is'then applied'upon therailsuntil they slip down from the beveled surfaces 15-l6 and become securely seated upon the member 2. As the rails become seated their balls rock into their respectiveseats l112 in the abutments 9--1O,

. which reliably secure the rails from tipping when subjected to heavy lateral pressure. spikes are then driven through the holes 4 5 to engage and overlap the outer margins of the rail bases," the inner margins of which are reliably secured by the ll-shaped retaining member 17. In some instances, itis desirable to set the guard rail higher than the main rail toprevent the wheel flanges of a train from climbing said guard rail, so I have provided a modified form disclosed by Fig. 4c, in which the tie-plate member 2* I has alowseat18 for the main rail 13 and a high seat 19 for the guard rail G. In

other respects this modified form is substandescribed.

' tially thesame as the preferred formra b Having thus described inyinvention, what; to secure by Letters Patent is e I claim and desire .A device ofthe character described, con

sistingof a tie-plate member adapt-ed tobe interposed between a cross tie and two rails,

flanges on said member to ebiit egeinst the I outer margins of the rail bases, a T-shaPed wardly frornopposite ends. ofsaid tie-plate member and provided at their upper ends with seats, -said abutments being arranged ztt'such an angle andso disposed withrelationto the flanges, the T-shaped member,

and the upper surface of the tie-plate memher as to receive the balls of the rails when the latter are rocked into their respective positions upon the tie-plate vmember, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature,

inthe presence of two witnesses.

V JOHN W. THOMAS.

Witnesses: Y

F. G; ,Frsonnn, c T. G. FISCHER; s

'G opi es of this patent maybe obtained ior five eents ea.ch,'by addressing the Commissioner; of Iate'nt" I Washington, D. 0. 

